NT/2000 had the same problem if you started VNC as a User Process while logged in, then had to hit Alt+Ctrl+Del to do something or you logged out. Starting VNC as a SERVICE made it start BEFORE any users were logged in, meaning yes, exactly, it displays exactly what you see on the monitor. Which is what the author of the story wants. If he wanted a fresh desktop, he'd simply use terminal services. Now, starting it as a service still MAY NOT WORK but flaming the guy saying he has no clue what he's talking about and then making it seem in your article that YOU don't know what you're talking about has me a bit perturbed.
Honestly it wasn't a criticism of his looks... It was meant as a joke. I just found it kinda ironic that he is seen as many as (for a lack of a better word) a 'prophet' or 'messiah' of software freedom and the guy looks like Jesus. While I don't see eye to eye with him, I'm glad to know there are people out there who stick to their convictions and are willing to do things because they feel they're right, not just for personal gain. Whether or not you agree with them that they're right is another matter altogether.:)
My main beef was that he took what should've been an article about the SCO/IBM case and used it to rehash what we've all been told before about the GNU/Linux argument and I'm just tired of hearing it over and over again. I don't think it was necessary to go over again for his argument... But then again it was his place to make whatever comment he felt was appropriate.
I can't help it... Does he TRY to look like Jesus!? Sheesh!
Honestly though, I half expected him not to revisit the GNU/Linux issue... But deep down inside I knew he would. You could eliminate the entire article outside of the comment that the FSF's legal counsel believes SCO gave permission to use the code when it distributed it's own version of Linux and gotten the same good information from it. And even that isn't really new information, it's just backing up what other GPL experts have suspected by a word from someone with authority. I hope the FSF has already filed such a claim with the court...
The GNU/Linux thing is way past old... (I note he didn't use GNU/NetBSD?) Narf...
Didn't Bush and Cheney divest themselves of most if not all of their oil stocks at the behest of critics? I know for a fact Cheney took millions in losses by getting rid of stock options he'd earned as a CEO before their maturity date. On the other hand, if we assume they still have such stocks, this War still wouldn't make sense from that standpoint. In the first gulf war and now in this war, the price of oil has plummeted. How does devaluing oil help oil companies? The Government guidelines for a steady increase in fuel efficiency and better emissions standards are still in place. President Bush simply opposed making these rules more strict than they already are and putting a further hurt on already suffering American auto-makers. And how can you say this war has nothing to do with the opinions of the american people or citizens of other countries? The majority of America supports war with Iraq (much like the first war). Honestly I don't think anyone's opinion in this world matters but the opinion of the Iraqi people, and they on their part seem to be pretty happy about the whole liberation thing. I've been told stories by friends who took part in Desert Storm that surrendered Iraqi soldiers begged them to take out Saddam. If the people of Iraq want to be freed, what else should matter? I think you just don't like Bush--which is fine--but at least mention that instead of developing some conspiracy theory as to why this war is 'reallly' being fought.:)
His belief is shared by most of the UN and the world.
"Eat shit, 200 billion flies can't be wrong!"
Just because a majority believes something doesn't make it automatically right. At one time the majority of the world thought Slavery was okay. The majority of people also thought middle-east terrorists were also behind the Oklahoma City bombings. The majority of people thought that if you just gave Hitler some territory he'd calm down.
It's not like the US is doing this without support. We've got the open support of 30 Nations and the silent support of at least 15 others. While yes much of the UN is against it, that's because either: A) They hate the US, B) They have some vested interest in keeping Iraq the way it is (see: France, Germany, Russia), or C) They just don't know what's going on in there. There's also the fact that the last UN Security Council resolution that authorized force against Iraq if they didn't immediately comply with the original Gulf War cease fire agreement was passed UNANIMOUSLY by the Security Council. The problem is the UN is very very bad about backing up any resolutions with force (see: Isreal, Iraq the past 12 years).
You asked what Bush has done for our country... And you brought up the unemployment rate. What does the American President have to do with unemployment? He doesn't hire people, businesses do. All he can do about it is what he has done about it: try to make it less expensive to do business in the US and more attractive to hire employees and expand. That was the purpose of the tax cut plan that he tried to push through Congress (which unfortunately was ripped to tatters before it was passed). In the plan tax on businesses were reduced and taxes on middle and lower income families were extremely (and in the some cases, retroactively) reduced to allow people to keep more of their own money in hopes that it would end up back in the economy instead of in some Government program.
Martin Luther King was seen by a large number of people as a suspect individual. And yet in hindsight, even going against a majority, he was right. The original Martin Luther went against the beliefs of the organization that arguably controlled the Western world at that time, the Catholic Church, and was heavily condemned for it. Recently the Vatican admitted that Martin Luther's complaints were valid and justified. Maybe in five hundred years history books will look as kindly upon Bush and Blair.
FDR came under fire for his support of France and Great Britain in the beginning of World War II... He and Winston Churchill both were called warmongers and even worse names. Yet in the end they were vindicated. Churchill quite possibly was the greatest example of a human being and the most incredible leader of our past century. When he called for war with Germany in the late thirties, it was considered political suicide. But he pushed on because it was the right thing to do. Tony Blair most likely will lose his role as prime minister for supporting the war with Iraq, but despite that he joined the cause out of a true belief that it is the right thing to do.
If you don't agree with the War on the grounds that you hate War and think it is an abomination that should be removed from this Earth, then I applaud you and encourage you to continue to strongly hold onto your beliefs.
If you believe this War is unjustified and is pointless slaughter, then I encourage you to wait a few months to hear the opinions of the liberated Iraqi people. See if they felt the War was wrong.
In the end I wish the world could come to respect the US and realize that we do good in this world. But you can't be liked by everyone, and sometimes you have to take a position where you're liked by no one. In the end it doesn't matter what world opinion of us is, no matter how much we'd like to get along with the rest of the world. We're used to being hated by those we feed (see: Somolia), clothe, and defend. Them's the breaks I guess.
So tell me, how does one fight a war without killing people?
Legal war? Are you an expert on international law and therefore can say why the past seventeen UN resolutions against Iraq--the last of which authorized severe consequences against Iraq for non-compliance and was passed unanimously on the UN security countil--and Iraq not abiding by the cease fire agreement they signed at the end of the Gulf War do not count as legal reasons to go to War? Do you contend that your knowledge of International Law is greater than that of the British Attorney General who said that after careful review this operation was legal? When someone holds a gun to your head, do you wait for them to pull the trigger or do you do something about it beforehand? This is a War for self-defense in the same way that disarming a criminal who is threatening you is an act of self defense.
If Sony can get away with anally raping its customers on EQ, what makes you think they won't do the same and worse on a game where thousands will play simply because it's a Star Wars game? No, my friend, there will be no happiness in SWG. The same morons that worked on EQ work on SWG... It's silly to expect anything good out of them.
Unless Gabe started mumbling in Penny Arcade forums, you sir have ripped this quote from the Penny Arcade website... I'm confused how you were modded up.
Actually not referring to GCC (which is pseudo broken in its support of templated classes on our installation, but then again it's old (Not even EGCS!)) but Sun's proprietary compiler, CC. Sun's CC is very broken... It goes all wonky on templated classes inside templated classes and introduces really weird errors, segfaults, and has a weird way of forgetting about symbols during linking... Were we using a modern GCC (and if a modern GCC had fixed the issues we had w/ templated classes) I might have a higher opinion of the OS.
Default configs you probably have got me on, that I should take up w/ the admins...
Other desktop options would be nice, but we're stuck w/ the default CDE install. It is an issue of the admins not giving us options... But all the same, CDE was developed by Sun and a few other vendors and the only use I've found for it is to have multiple terminal windows opened at once. The interface just slows me down when I'm trying to work. Putting Gnome on the system wouldn't make the other issues magically vanish, however...
We're forcefed Solaris at school... and maybe it's just because of the situation of supporting 18k+ university students... But I can't stand the OS.
Broken, stupid compilers; braindead default configs; a useless, trash desktop; lackluster performance; finicky printer queues; workstations that inexplicably lock up and refuse to log out; header files and libraries with all kinds of wonky problems; etc...
While I'm sure it's a great solution in a closed environment to run a large monolithic app or a huge distributed app, in an open environment where you have to support a gazillion users I'd call it anything but elegant...
You don't act like you don't give a fuck, you spend alot of time going on about them being bad and pointless and even try to use my sig to prove your point... And yet you still avoid the question of "What other solution is there?"... I fail to see a silver lining in what you've said... Saying "my advice is to find yourself a channel with less braindead operators." doesn't help the fact that the user is unable to get the help they need because their ISP is banned...
btw, my sig is more in reference to lusers responding to my calm explanation of why their ISP is banned by DoS'ing me than placing a ban to defend an IRC channel from a large amount of abusive users...
So instead I just let the spammers make my channel unusable? Instead of crucifying Ops, offer an intelligient option they can use instead of large scale bans... Oh wait, there ISN'T one...
Or at least not a major one... I was (still technically am) an Op on #anime on the UnderNet, and not only did we have norway banned ocassionally, but we also eventually had numerous other european countries, south american countries, and mexico at one time or another. Was this elitism? Hell no, one of our most beloved operators was based out of Norway and another spent half the year in Mexico... This was done simply because the channel would've been unusable to the vast majority of visitors do to the hourly (not exagerating) visits by flood bots. What other option did we have? We tried selectively banning subnets and ISPs, but it didn't work! On Undernet one can be invited through a channel ban, so individuals who wanted to access the channel still had some options... You still haven't answered as to what your solution would be. Instead you just whine and call the operators names and say you're better off not associating with them. Mayhaps they're better off not associating with you with an attitude like that? You remind me of the guy who cried to us in the help channel that he was banned from #Ottowa, and that obviously must be illegal since he lived in #Ottowa, so he wanted a Network Op to go remove the ban...:) I'll give you the same explanation we gave users who would send us a/msg about being banned... We're sorry, but the volume of abusive users was simply too great from your area/isp/domain/country and we had to block everyone. Encourage your ISP to be tougher on abusive users, or take your business elsewhere... Eventually we'll reconsider the ban and give everyone a second chance.
If I remember correctly from previous reading (ie: I haven't read this article...), isn't the JSF Laser a replacement for the ubiquitous Vulcan in place on practically all US fighters? I don't think they'd honestly drop missiles totally in favor of a Laser (Especially not w/ all the money and time we spent on AMRAAM and what I've heard about the AIM-9X:) so I wouldn't worry, you'll still get to shout cool things like "I've got tone!" "Fox 3!" etc.;)
BTW, thanks for your willingness to serve our country. Good luck in your endeavours and Godspeed.:)
Actually not that much of a joke... when I moved into my new house I noticed that the area under my desk stays noticably warmer than the rest of the room and my feet were kept downright toasty if I propped them up on top of my Athlon XP 1800 tower... I think the GeForce 4 and the 400w power supply with all the fans piping heat outta the back add to the effect also.:)
As was mentioned in this previous article, Mac has been maintaining a seperate port of MacOS X for x86 in synch with the PPC version... I still remember some promotional material pre-OS X talking about an x86 version of Mac OS X being released that lacked the functionality to run Mac OS Classic apps (I think it was called Blue Box?). Are they going to jump ship to x86? Not likely if they can help it... but they're keeping the option open. Kind of like how Dr. Evil KNOWS his plans will never fail, but he always has that Big Boy rocket hidden in the back--just in case.;)
And who ya calling energy wasting? My Palomino keeps my room nice and toasty on those lonely nights and makes great julienne fries!;)
Actually I suggested the same thing as a paper idea in my neural networks class... Before I knew how neural networks worked...
Seriously though, having a random hodgepodge of neural network nodes, randomly wired, and without having two endpoints with which to train the network really does you no good. Neural networks are trained to be intelligient by feeding them input, then looking at the output and massaging them to make them produce the correct output in hopes that they eventually "learn" a pattern.
Now essentially building a beowulf cluster of sorts by linking all the nodes into a distributed processing network that could be used to crack RSA keys and the like... And could propogate updates (mutations?) to the worm... Well that will work.:)
Plus when you're detected, you can go out in a huge DDoS blaze of glory...
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NT/2000 had the same problem if you started VNC as a User Process while logged in, then had to hit Alt+Ctrl+Del to do something or you logged out. Starting VNC as a SERVICE made it start BEFORE any users were logged in, meaning yes, exactly, it displays exactly what you see on the monitor. Which is what the author of the story wants. If he wanted a fresh desktop, he'd simply use terminal services. Now, starting it as a service still MAY NOT WORK but flaming the guy saying he has no clue what he's talking about and then making it seem in your article that YOU don't know what you're talking about has me a bit perturbed.
Honestly it wasn't a criticism of his looks... It was meant as a joke. I just found it kinda ironic that he is seen as many as (for a lack of a better word) a 'prophet' or 'messiah' of software freedom and the guy looks like Jesus. While I don't see eye to eye with him, I'm glad to know there are people out there who stick to their convictions and are willing to do things because they feel they're right, not just for personal gain. Whether or not you agree with them that they're right is another matter altogether. :)
My main beef was that he took what should've been an article about the SCO/IBM case and used it to rehash what we've all been told before about the GNU/Linux argument and I'm just tired of hearing it over and over again. I don't think it was necessary to go over again for his argument... But then again it was his place to make whatever comment he felt was appropriate.
I can't help it... Does he TRY to look like Jesus!? Sheesh!
Honestly though, I half expected him not to revisit the GNU/Linux issue... But deep down inside I knew he would. You could eliminate the entire article outside of the comment that the FSF's legal counsel believes SCO gave permission to use the code when it distributed it's own version of Linux and gotten the same good information from it. And even that isn't really new information, it's just backing up what other GPL experts have suspected by a word from someone with authority. I hope the FSF has already filed such a claim with the court...
The GNU/Linux thing is way past old... (I note he didn't use GNU/NetBSD?) Narf...
Didn't Bush and Cheney divest themselves of most if not all of their oil stocks at the behest of critics? I know for a fact Cheney took millions in losses by getting rid of stock options he'd earned as a CEO before their maturity date. :)
On the other hand, if we assume they still have such stocks, this War still wouldn't make sense from that standpoint. In the first gulf war and now in this war, the price of oil has plummeted. How does devaluing oil help oil companies?
The Government guidelines for a steady increase in fuel efficiency and better emissions standards are still in place. President Bush simply opposed making these rules more strict than they already are and putting a further hurt on already suffering American auto-makers.
And how can you say this war has nothing to do with the opinions of the american people or citizens of other countries? The majority of America supports war with Iraq (much like the first war). Honestly I don't think anyone's opinion in this world matters but the opinion of the Iraqi people, and they on their part seem to be pretty happy about the whole liberation thing. I've been told stories by friends who took part in Desert Storm that surrendered Iraqi soldiers begged them to take out Saddam. If the people of Iraq want to be freed, what else should matter?
I think you just don't like Bush--which is fine--but at least mention that instead of developing some conspiracy theory as to why this war is 'reallly' being fought.
His belief is shared by most of the UN and the world.
"Eat shit, 200 billion flies can't be wrong!"
Just because a majority believes something doesn't make it automatically right. At one time the majority of the world thought Slavery was okay. The majority of people also thought middle-east terrorists were also behind the Oklahoma City bombings. The majority of people thought that if you just gave Hitler some territory he'd calm down.
It's not like the US is doing this without support. We've got the open support of 30 Nations and the silent support of at least 15 others. While yes much of the UN is against it, that's because either: A) They hate the US, B) They have some vested interest in keeping Iraq the way it is (see: France, Germany, Russia), or C) They just don't know what's going on in there. There's also the fact that the last UN Security Council resolution that authorized force against Iraq if they didn't immediately comply with the original Gulf War cease fire agreement was passed UNANIMOUSLY by the Security Council. The problem is the UN is very very bad about backing up any resolutions with force (see: Isreal, Iraq the past 12 years).
You asked what Bush has done for our country... And you brought up the unemployment rate. What does the American President have to do with unemployment? He doesn't hire people, businesses do. All he can do about it is what he has done about it: try to make it less expensive to do business in the US and more attractive to hire employees and expand. That was the purpose of the tax cut plan that he tried to push through Congress (which unfortunately was ripped to tatters before it was passed). In the plan tax on businesses were reduced and taxes on middle and lower income families were extremely (and in the some cases, retroactively) reduced to allow people to keep more of their own money in hopes that it would end up back in the economy instead of in some Government program.
Martin Luther King was seen by a large number of people as a suspect individual. And yet in hindsight, even going against a majority, he was right. The original Martin Luther went against the beliefs of the organization that arguably controlled the Western world at that time, the Catholic Church, and was heavily condemned for it. Recently the Vatican admitted that Martin Luther's complaints were valid and justified. Maybe in five hundred years history books will look as kindly upon Bush and Blair.
FDR came under fire for his support of France and Great Britain in the beginning of World War II... He and Winston Churchill both were called warmongers and even worse names. Yet in the end they were vindicated. Churchill quite possibly was the greatest example of a human being and the most incredible leader of our past century. When he called for war with Germany in the late thirties, it was considered political suicide. But he pushed on because it was the right thing to do. Tony Blair most likely will lose his role as prime minister for supporting the war with Iraq, but despite that he joined the cause out of a true belief that it is the right thing to do.
If you don't agree with the War on the grounds that you hate War and think it is an abomination that should be removed from this Earth, then I applaud you and encourage you to continue to strongly hold onto your beliefs.
If you believe this War is unjustified and is pointless slaughter, then I encourage you to wait a few months to hear the opinions of the liberated Iraqi people. See if they felt the War was wrong. In the end I wish the world could come to respect the US and realize that we do good in this world. But you can't be liked by everyone, and sometimes you have to take a position where you're liked by no one. In the end it doesn't matter what world opinion of us is, no matter how much we'd like to get along with the rest of the world. We're used to being hated by those we feed (see: Somolia), clothe, and defend. Them's the breaks I guess.
So tell me, how does one fight a war without killing people?
Legal war? Are you an expert on international law and therefore can say why the past seventeen UN resolutions against Iraq--the last of which authorized severe consequences against Iraq for non-compliance and was passed unanimously on the UN security countil--and Iraq not abiding by the cease fire agreement they signed at the end of the Gulf War do not count as legal reasons to go to War? Do you contend that your knowledge of International Law is greater than that of the British Attorney General who said that after careful review this operation was legal?
When someone holds a gun to your head, do you wait for them to pull the trigger or do you do something about it beforehand? This is a War for self-defense in the same way that disarming a criminal who is threatening you is an act of self defense.
If Sony can get away with anally raping its customers on EQ, what makes you think they won't do the same and worse on a game where thousands will play simply because it's a Star Wars game?
No, my friend, there will be no happiness in SWG. The same morons that worked on EQ work on SWG... It's silly to expect anything good out of them.
No... it should be called 'Central Dogma' with the cluster named 'MAGI' and the individual nodes as Melchior, Balthazar... etc...
Unless Gabe started mumbling in Penny Arcade forums, you sir have ripped this quote from the Penny Arcade website... I'm confused how you were modded up.
Actually not referring to GCC (which is pseudo broken in its support of templated classes on our installation, but then again it's old (Not even EGCS!)) but Sun's proprietary compiler, CC. Sun's CC is very broken... It goes all wonky on templated classes inside templated classes and introduces really weird errors, segfaults, and has a weird way of forgetting about symbols during linking... Were we using a modern GCC (and if a modern GCC had fixed the issues we had w/ templated classes) I might have a higher opinion of the OS.
Default configs you probably have got me on, that I should take up w/ the admins...
Other desktop options would be nice, but we're stuck w/ the default CDE install. It is an issue of the admins not giving us options... But all the same, CDE was developed by Sun and a few other vendors and the only use I've found for it is to have multiple terminal windows opened at once. The interface just slows me down when I'm trying to work. Putting Gnome on the system wouldn't make the other issues magically vanish, however...
Seriously I hope you meant that as a joke...
We're forcefed Solaris at school... and maybe it's just because of the situation of supporting 18k+ university students... But I can't stand the OS.
Broken, stupid compilers; braindead default configs; a useless, trash desktop; lackluster performance; finicky printer queues; workstations that inexplicably lock up and refuse to log out; header files and libraries with all kinds of wonky problems; etc...
While I'm sure it's a great solution in a closed environment to run a large monolithic app or a huge distributed app, in an open environment where you have to support a gazillion users I'd call it anything but elegant...
Will you post a reply to a reply that was a reply to your reply and be marked Offtopic...
You don't act like you don't give a fuck, you spend alot of time going on about them being bad and pointless and even try to use my sig to prove your point... And yet you still avoid the question of "What other solution is there?"... I fail to see a silver lining in what you've said... Saying "my advice is to find yourself a channel with less braindead operators." doesn't help the fact that the user is unable to get the help they need because their ISP is banned... btw, my sig is more in reference to lusers responding to my calm explanation of why their ISP is banned by DoS'ing me than placing a ban to defend an IRC channel from a large amount of abusive users...
The very method of banning people using their ip or domain is wrong./EM
Then what, pretell, is your solution? I see lots of people crying about how large bans are a sin, but no solutions to the problem offered.
So instead I just let the spammers make my channel unusable? Instead of crucifying Ops, offer an intelligient option they can use instead of large scale bans... Oh wait, there ISN'T one...
Well gosh, I didn't think "Don't flood my channel with 30 spam bots" had a really popular opposing viewpoint...
Or at least not a major one... I was (still technically am) an Op on #anime on the UnderNet, and not only did we have norway banned ocassionally, but we also eventually had numerous other european countries, south american countries, and mexico at one time or another. :) /msg about being banned... We're sorry, but the volume of abusive users was simply too great from your area/isp/domain/country and we had to block everyone. Encourage your ISP to be tougher on abusive users, or take your business elsewhere... Eventually we'll reconsider the ban and give everyone a second chance.
Was this elitism? Hell no, one of our most beloved operators was based out of Norway and another spent half the year in Mexico... This was done simply because the channel would've been unusable to the vast majority of visitors do to the hourly (not exagerating) visits by flood bots. What other option did we have? We tried selectively banning subnets and ISPs, but it didn't work!
On Undernet one can be invited through a channel ban, so individuals who wanted to access the channel still had some options...
You still haven't answered as to what your solution would be. Instead you just whine and call the operators names and say you're better off not associating with them. Mayhaps they're better off not associating with you with an attitude like that? You remind me of the guy who cried to us in the help channel that he was banned from #Ottowa, and that obviously must be illegal since he lived in #Ottowa, so he wanted a Network Op to go remove the ban...
I'll give you the same explanation we gave users who would send us a
I always knew caffeine was the secret to consciousness...
Hey... Then we could use the laser to heat up one side of the asteroid... and make it land on our enemies! GENIUS! :D
If I remember correctly from previous reading (ie: I haven't read this article...), isn't the JSF Laser a replacement for the ubiquitous Vulcan in place on practically all US fighters? I don't think they'd honestly drop missiles totally in favor of a Laser (Especially not w/ all the money and time we spent on AMRAAM and what I've heard about the AIM-9X :) so I wouldn't worry, you'll still get to shout cool things like "I've got tone!" "Fox 3!" etc. ;)
:)
BTW, thanks for your willingness to serve our country. Good luck in your endeavours and Godspeed.
Actually not that much of a joke... when I moved into my new house I noticed that the area under my desk stays noticably warmer than the rest of the room and my feet were kept downright toasty if I propped them up on top of my Athlon XP 1800 tower... I think the GeForce 4 and the 400w power supply with all the fans piping heat outta the back add to the effect also. :)
As was mentioned in this previous article, Mac has been maintaining a seperate port of MacOS X for x86 in synch with the PPC version... I still remember some promotional material pre-OS X talking about an x86 version of Mac OS X being released that lacked the functionality to run Mac OS Classic apps (I think it was called Blue Box?). ;)
;)
Are they going to jump ship to x86? Not likely if they can help it... but they're keeping the option open. Kind of like how Dr. Evil KNOWS his plans will never fail, but he always has that Big Boy rocket hidden in the back--just in case.
And who ya calling energy wasting? My Palomino keeps my room nice and toasty on those lonely nights and makes great julienne fries!
Simple explanation:
"That's no moon, it's a space station!"
*runs*
Actually I suggested the same thing as a paper idea in my neural networks class... Before I knew how neural networks worked...
:)
Seriously though, having a random hodgepodge of neural network nodes, randomly wired, and without having two endpoints with which to train the network really does you no good. Neural networks are trained to be intelligient by feeding them input, then looking at the output and massaging them to make them produce the correct output in hopes that they eventually "learn" a pattern.
Now essentially building a beowulf cluster of sorts by linking all the nodes into a distributed processing network that could be used to crack RSA keys and the like... And could propogate updates (mutations?) to the worm... Well that will work.
Plus when you're detected, you can go out in a huge DDoS blaze of glory...
When's the rocket leave? :D